The construction, short life and destruction of the Confederate ship CSS Neuse was the topic of Andrew Duppstadt lecture at Museum of the Albemarle on Wednesday, July 2. Duppstadt, who is the ...

KINSTON, NC (WECT) - Most people are aware of the many ground battles that took place between 1861 and 1865, but both the Union and Confederate armies had a variety of naval warships. Before the war ...

The Kinston-Lenoir County Tourism and Development Authority, in coordination with the CSS Neuse Civil War Museum and the ...

Calling all Civil War history buffs and lovers of all things nautical: The CSS Neuse Center in downtown Kinston will be hosting a program Saturday that will teach visitors the skills needed, and ...

Matthew Young’s love of ships, the navy and the Civil War as well as his desire to preserve history while making these available to the public has led him on a four-year questto make the CSS Neuse ...

On October 17, 1862, the contract was signed to build the Confederate ironclad gunboat CSS Neuse. The vessel was needed to bolster southern naval defenses and to prevent Union occupation of the ...

“Heirlooms, Antiques, and Militaria” is a free program aimed to answer questions about family trinkets. “We wanted to do something like “Antiques Roadshow” said CSS Neuse Site Manager Matthew Young in ...

This week, an archaeological team is expected to set out to see if they can find remains of the CSS Neuse, a battleship that met a watery grave near Kinston, NC, during the Civil War. Now, many of you ...

KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) – “We house the only remaining commissioned Confederate Ironclad above water,” noted Matthew Young, site manager for the CSS Neuse Interpretive Center in Kinston. Sitting at 158 ...

Our Living Local series continues in July with a visit to Kinston. Erin Jenkins tells us more about one of the places to see, the CSS Neuse, the steam-powered ironclad ram of the Confederate States ...

In the waning months of the Civil War, a young gunner from Virginia floated outside Kinston aboard the CSS Neuse, lamenting the cold, mourning the rebel cause and writing love-struck tributes to a ...